Welcome
The UCI Center on Inequality and Social Justice (CISJ) supports research on inequality and social justice in Orange County and Southern California, using the region as a "learning laboratory." Our goal is to facilitate faculty research efforts at UCI tied to both concerns over the rise of inequality, and the social justice responses it creates. Our primary intent is the production and release of timely and useful information which clarifies the many ways which inequality takes form and is challenged in Southern California and in similar regions throughout the US.
Particular attention will be given to clarifying how institutional arrangements (e.g. policies and practices) maintain and diminish inequality in a variety of areas, including neighborhood and community development , environmental degradation, affordable housing advocacy , public health promotion, and educational achievement. The Center works closely with UCI’s Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) and related campus units that sponsor programs supporting outreach activities and applied research community partnerships.
Center Activities:
- Seed funding for research on inequality and social justice in Southern California
- Policy briefs and dissemination of research on inequality
- Lectures
- Other activities
Presenting a series of stories that explore how a widening divide (the gap between costs of living and incomes) in Orange County's economy is impacting its middle class households, families and communities. These articles will offer readers an "everyday" perspective about this growing problem, and build upon the original study, "The Orange Crush: Squeezing Orange County's Middle Class" produced by John Hipp, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine.
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